Watch out...the EPA wants to "protect" pit masters...
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Bob Correll
R.I.P. 3/31/2022
Pork Steak Rebellion
Here's the gist of it:
There are concerns about “particulate emissions” you breathe when you stand over a gas grill; especially when grease hits the flames.
The EPA is funding a $15,000 University of California-Riverside study into the issue.
Researchers said the study could have global implications.
State Senator Eric Schmitt (R) Glendale, is urging people to barbecue this week to send the EPA a message.
“The idea that the EPA wants to find their way into our back yards, where we’re congregating with our neighbors, having a good time, on the 4th of July, barbecuing pork steak or hamburgers, is ridiculous and it’s emblematic of agency that’s sort of out of control,” Schmitt said.
He laughingly called on people to grill in their back yards this week as a sort of “peaceful protest”.
Link here.
Here's the gist of it:
There are concerns about “particulate emissions” you breathe when you stand over a gas grill; especially when grease hits the flames.
The EPA is funding a $15,000 University of California-Riverside study into the issue.
Researchers said the study could have global implications.
State Senator Eric Schmitt (R) Glendale, is urging people to barbecue this week to send the EPA a message.
“The idea that the EPA wants to find their way into our back yards, where we’re congregating with our neighbors, having a good time, on the 4th of July, barbecuing pork steak or hamburgers, is ridiculous and it’s emblematic of agency that’s sort of out of control,” Schmitt said.
He laughingly called on people to grill in their back yards this week as a sort of “peaceful protest”.
Link here.
ChadVKealey
TVWBB Pro
Thank goodness the federal government has nothing better to do than try to save me from my own hardwood smoke.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/17/lawmaker-calls-for-rebellion-against-epa-pollution-emissions-for-backyard/#
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/17/lawmaker-calls-for-rebellion-against-epa-pollution-emissions-for-backyard/#
Bob Correll
R.I.P. 3/31/2022
John Solak
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
Can I have 15 grand to do my own study of Backyard BBQ too???
Bob Correll
R.I.P. 3/31/2022
Sure John.
Will you take a check?
Dustin Dorsey
TVWBB Hall of Fame
The article says that they are funding a $17000 study. I wouldn't get too worked up over that one.
Len Dennis
TVWBB Diamond Member
They should be more worried about off-gassing of chlorine from back yard swimming pools than some wood smoke.
Phil Perrin
TVWBB Hall of Fame
Don't they have better things to worry about,like all the hot air in Washington ? That could cause a serious temperature inversion like in LA!
Although we have a "no politics" discussion policy, I'm leaving this thread active since it involves grilling/barbecuing. Please keep discussion focused on the news report and the issue at hand. Posts that stray beyond that may be deleted. Thanks for your cooperation.
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I don't really have an opinion about this news report because I think it's much ado about nothing. Sounds like an academic exercise to me.
But just to frame the problem that drives these kinds of studies...Riverside County where the University of California-Riverside is located has some of the worst air pollution in the United States. I was born in Riverside in 1962 and spent most summers there until I was 18 years old. On the worst days, the smog was so bad that you could not see Box Springs Mountain just 3 miles from my grandparents house. My dad says that in the 1960s there were hair-brained schemes to bore holes in the mountains, install giant exhaust fans, and blow the smog out of the Los Angeles Basin. By 1968, the air pollution in Riverside was so bad that my parents moved our family to Northern California; they did not want to raise their kids under those conditions.
Air quality in Riverside has improved a lot since the 1960s thanks to cleaner gasoline, catalytic converters on cars, and controls on industrial emissions, but it's still pretty bad. From The Sun Desert newspaper, April 2014:
So it's against this backdrop that people are trying to figure out how to improve air quality in Southern California. I'm not sure controlling gas grill emissions is the answer, but we need to keep doing research and working to improve the situation. Personally, I like to breathe my air, not chew it.
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I don't really have an opinion about this news report because I think it's much ado about nothing. Sounds like an academic exercise to me.
But just to frame the problem that drives these kinds of studies...Riverside County where the University of California-Riverside is located has some of the worst air pollution in the United States. I was born in Riverside in 1962 and spent most summers there until I was 18 years old. On the worst days, the smog was so bad that you could not see Box Springs Mountain just 3 miles from my grandparents house. My dad says that in the 1960s there were hair-brained schemes to bore holes in the mountains, install giant exhaust fans, and blow the smog out of the Los Angeles Basin. By 1968, the air pollution in Riverside was so bad that my parents moved our family to Northern California; they did not want to raise their kids under those conditions.
Air quality in Riverside has improved a lot since the 1960s thanks to cleaner gasoline, catalytic converters on cars, and controls on industrial emissions, but it's still pretty bad. From The Sun Desert newspaper, April 2014:
So it's against this backdrop that people are trying to figure out how to improve air quality in Southern California. I'm not sure controlling gas grill emissions is the answer, but we need to keep doing research and working to improve the situation. Personally, I like to breathe my air, not chew it.